Payphones Past

Laser Turntable

17 years ago

I landed on this product web site through the Random Yahoo Link. This "laser turntable" presents an interesting solution to…

Are there any payphone news?

17 years ago

"Are there any news?" is a grammatical pique supposedly coined by newsman Horace Greeley. In reply to that question one…

Report finds one in four NYC subway system pay phones don’t work

17 years ago

NYPIRG's Straphangers' Campaign does regular surveys of New York's subway payphones and the results are pretty consistent: Payphones in subways…

Ocean City: Verizon pulls plug on payphones

17 years ago

Here's hoping you've kept your cell phone charged on your next visit to the beach, because in Ocean City, public…

22 college students cram into a phone booth

17 years ago

How many college students can you fit into a phone booth?Students at St. Mary's College of California found an answer…

New York Times: Sorry, Superman

17 years ago

The New York Times reports: "Like the phonograph and the typewriter, the pay phone could one day become an anachronism,…

Aquarium Phone Booth

17 years ago

"With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused. We rediscover this glass cage transformed into an aquarium,…

NY Times Blog: A Phantom Bell Atlantic Phone Booth

18 years ago

A New York Times City Room Blog entry points us to a payphone enclosure which still bore vestiges of the…

Sex, drugs and pay phones

18 years ago

The rot gut and cheap plonk have been pulled from Mike Christison's shelves, his hope being that the lack of…

Lost Child…Call Home

18 years ago

This is a Payphone Project feature from several years ago. My friend Rex drove out to a remote spot in…